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U.S. Military To Create Its Own Internet

Posted by timothy on from the milnet-II-means-handouts-for-contractors dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The New York Times today reports 'The Pentagon is building its own Internet, the military's world wide web for the wars of the future. ... The Pentagon calls the secure network the Global Information Grid, or GIG. Conceived six years ago, its first connections were laid six weeks ago. It may take two decades and hundreds of billions of dollars to build ...' Members of a consortium formed 9/28 include Boeing; Cisco Systems; Factiva (Dow Jones and Reuters); General Dynamics; Hewlett-Packard; Honeywell; I.B.M.; Lockheed Martin; Microsoft; Northrop Grumman; Oracle; Raytheon; and Sun Microsystems."

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  1. So George W Bush was right all along... by Eshock · · Score: 0, Redundant

    There really are multiple internets.

  2. Hmm... by digitalgimpus · · Score: 1, Redundant

    They should let ARPA oversee the project.

    Since it will be some type of a network.. they should call it ARPAnet...

    It will cost billions because the idea of a decentralized network is a brand new concept. They may need to tap some nerds at MIT etc. for help.

  3. OH CRAP! by NeoGeo64 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Skynet is being formed! Oh NOES!!11

  4. Sounds like the beginnings of Skynet by wsgeek · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ....from The Terminator. When does it gain consciousness again? 2024?

  5. Re:Dupe! by phoebusQ · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You have no idea what you're talking about. I've been there, I'm going back in January, and I take offense to your blanket statement about the force that I take pride in being part of. Civilian casualties are a consequence of WAREFARE IN GENERAL, not of incompetence of the military. Our military produces the lowest civilian casualty rates of any in the world.